unionfs 5.4

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Sat Mar 5 07:19:03 PST 2005


On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 04:49:07PM +0300, Denis Shaposhnikov wrote:
> >>>>> "Mathieu" == Mathieu Arnold <mat at mat.cc> writes:
> 
>  Mathieu> I'm not answering to your question, but what's the need of a
>  Mathieu> ro unionfs, a ro nullfs would do the same, no ?
> 
> It seems that nullfs much slower.

But it works, and doesn't panic the system.  unionfs is
well-documented to be broken, and this is unlikely to change in the
near future.

Kris


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